This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III, Buddhism, The Silent Sage, | Chapter III, Buddhism, The Rebel Saint, | Chapter III, Buddhism, The Four Noble Truths,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hinduism who has the spiritual ideas of infinite being, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss?
(a) Only philosophers can possess that information.
(b) Only the oldest gurus understand these things.
(c) All humans already posses these things but until a certain point they remain hidden.
(d) Only one individual per lifetime has this knowledge.

2. What does the first signpost of the Path of Renunciation which reads "the community" offer the individual?
(a) It offers membership in a larger family.
(b) It offers more lasting value than the self-centered desires of human nature.
(c) It offers political opportunity to gain more personal power.
(d) It offers a better way to get what you want.

3. What is the Hindu attitude toward other religions?
(a) They will one day turn to Hinduism.
(b) They are misguided.
(c) They are alternate paths toward the same goal.
(d) They are headed for different ends.

4. The two men Huston Smith regards as having the greatest impact on the world as we know it today.
(a) Napoleon and Joseph Stalin
(b) J. P. Morgan and Albert Einstein
(c) Jesus and Confucious
(d) Robert Oppenheimer and Mahatma Gandhi

5. What are the Hindu stages of life?
(a) Fetus, birth, education, work
(b) Birth, separation, retirement, death
(c) Student, marriage, retirement, detachment
(d) Infant, student, career, enjoyment